Access Manager: Configuring an Active Directory connector to use Custom Attributes for imported contact details

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Your Access Manager system can be configured to use different values for almost any attribute imported from Active Directory. If you want to have user accounts pull contact details from a source other than the mail and mobile attributes you will need to edit your directory configuration to do this.

In Access Manager go to the Directories page, select the directory you want to edit and then expand the Configuration section and then go to the Attributes tab.

 

To change the imported email address locate the line:

<attribute name="mail" writable="true"

Change the mail value to the name of the attribute you are going to be importing, for example if you have a custom attribute named lbMail the line would now be

<attribute name="lbMail" writable="true"

 

To change the imported mobile number address locate the line:

<attribute name="mobile" writable="true"

Change the mobile value to the name of the attribute you are going to be importing, for example if you have a custom attribute named lbMobile the line would now be

<attribute name="lbMobile" writable="true"

Once the desired changes have been made save the configuration and synchronise for the changes to take effect. Once the sync completes users will be updated to use the values in these newly defind attributes rather than the default mail and mobile.